"Theories of Life in the 20th and 21st Centuries,​" Rutgers Interdisci​plinary Humanities Conference (2.26.11)

Theories of Life in the 20th and 21st Centuries Rutgers Interdisciplinary Humanities Conference

"Theories of Life in the 20th and 21st Centuries" brings together scholars from across the humanities to investigate the centrality of theories of "life" to twentieth and twenty-first century theory and cultural production. In fields as diverse as vitalism, feminism, animal studies, political theory, aesthetics and psychoanalysis, presenters will highlight how the humanities investigates the ontological properties and ethical imperatives of life.

Plenary Speaker: Donna V. Jones, UC-Berkeley English: "The Career of Living Things is Continuous"

- "The Vitalist Debate in American Literature, 1950-2000"- John McClure, Rutgers University English - "Nietzschean Vitalism in German Musical Modernism"- Jonathan Gentry, Brown University History - - "The Limits of Life in the 20th and 21st Century: The Fetus and the Refugee"- Heather Latimer, University of Manchester, English and American Studies - "History in the Service of Life: Nietzsche and Deleuze" - Allison M. Merrick, University of Southampton, Philosophy